It’s quite easy to get fed up with life in the UK at this time of year, especially if the weather consists of sunshine and heavy rain. Granted it’s unseasonably mild for the time of year, with temperatures during the day around 10C (50F) but it still just wants to […]
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After all the fuss about Christmas and New Years, I very often find that January is a brain dead month for me, and 2014 is proving to be no exception. I made myself a New Year’s Resolution to write more, especially here on what was created as a special site […]
The weather in the UK since at least a week before Christmas Day has been so bad it has me wondering when is this wind and rain going to end. With the exception of maybe 2-3 days the gusty winds and driving rain just haven’t let up since it started. […]
We had a rather nice Father’s Day weekend, with Debbie’s Mum and Dad coming over to use for lunch on Sunday, and then her daughter and fiance turned up as well. The roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, peas, carrots and Mediterranean vegetables went down really well, as […]
I became A Grandad for the first time today with the news that my son and his wife had a baby this morning, born almost 2 weeks early by c-section. James Haydn Payne was born at 10:59am and weighs 10lbs 1oz. That’s all I know so far, looking forward to […]
You know what it’s like when a job that ought to be really simple just ends up going wrong for no reason of your own. This is what happened to me when I tried to replace a security light on our garage over the weekend. Our garage is at the […]
I don’t know how many readers of this blog are into football; I’m sure some are and most will have friends or family who have the disease. At its best a football match is a contest between two able and sporting teams, striving with skill and passion to win the […]
I always wanted a boat, ever since my Dad had to sell our cabin cruiser when I was 15. Sadly, with the economy the way it is, this is about all I can afford.
Sad Songs: why do we love them? I think we all have our favourite sad songs – songs that we turn to when we’re miserable and songs that make us even more miserable – but we can’t stop ourselves. It might be a chance playing on the radio, a snippet […]
I went out to do my weekend chore of picking up his mess in the garden, for which I keep a small trowel which is dug in a flower bed. I began my “search and retrieve” mission, then realized the trowel handle was all slimy and wet.